Hybrid/Remote Payment Gateway Contract Job Trends

Payment Gateway
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Payment Gateway skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 297 350
Rank change year-on-year -13 +53 +133
Contract jobs citing Payment Gateway 17 13 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.12% 0.067%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.71% 1.30% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 4
10th Percentile £364 £303 £449
25th Percentile £385 £321 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £367 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% -36.17% -7.26%
75th Percentile £429 £500 £609
90th Percentile £452 £600 £626
UK median daily rate £420 £459 £550
% change year-on-year -8.50% -16.55% -9.84%

All Business Application Skills
Work from Home

Payment Gateway falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 997 1,003 1,484
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.01% 9.37% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 574 831
10th Percentile £395 £380 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £648 £670 £664
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 20 26
10th Percentile £20.36 £35.00 £31.13
25th Percentile £30.00 £48.44 £50.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.75 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.96% -20.29% +73.47%
75th Percentile £68.75 £86.00 £87.25
90th Percentile £90.35 £87.05 £92.00
UK median hourly rate £55.75 £60.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.08% +26.32% +27.35%

Payment Gateway
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Payment Gateway and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Payment Gateway job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Payment Gateway
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Payment Gateway.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Payment Gateway

Payment Gateway
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (5.88%) Apigee
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
2 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (5.88%) Kong
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) NonStop SQL
1 3 (17.65%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
1 3 (17.65%) Postman
General
1 13 (76.47%) Banking
2 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Architect
1 6 (35.29%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Business Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Payments Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Payments Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Payments Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) JSON
1 3 (17.65%) REST
1 3 (17.65%) SOAP
1 3 (17.65%) Swagger
1 3 (17.65%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Digital Wallet
1 3 (17.65%) EMV
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
1 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
1 3 (17.65%) Tandem
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) PMI
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Architectural Design
3 5 (29.41%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
3 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
4 4 (23.53%) High Availability
4 4 (23.53%) Validation
5 3 (17.65%) API Design
5 3 (17.65%) API Integration
5 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
5 3 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (17.65%) System Integration Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.76%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C
1 3 (17.65%) COBOL
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Bicep
2 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CBAP
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.88%) PMP
5 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) PCI DSS
2 7 (41.18%) ISO 8583
3 5 (29.41%) PSD2
4 2 (11.76%) ISO 20022
4 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Istio
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) linkerd
1 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) HP
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk